I was surprised how easy it was to grow cherry tomatoes. We had some go rogue and we’d find them growing in the high grass, little orbs of red and gold peaking out.
Some people would say that failure is not part of what they had planned for. Sounds as if you counted it as part of the experience.
Some people would say that failure is not part of what they had planned for. Sounds as if you counted it as part of the experience.
Hell yes.
I talked with an old uncle. Because something was killing my sunflowers ...I even dosed them with tobasco sauce. I was ticked and I couldn’t figure it out.
He said out west you could have a hail that would rip the leaves off everything in thirty minutes. Done and gone. Same with locusts. Blackened the ski and there is nothing you can do about it. Again done and gone. Just part of it and life.
I just learned this week that if you take the sucker branches off tomatoes at about three inches in hieght when you prune; that these will readily grow into full plants. I was surprised by that. My friend did it.
Which gives me one morethought. Talk about gardening makes for really good conversation. Trials ,tribulations and victories. Good conversation, which in general, seems on the wane.
I think someothr countries like in europe see thier crops as part of their cultural heritage, protect and support them.
Safron in spain. Grapes and wine in Italy.
Asperagus, hopps in Germany.
I don’t know the list but thier are country associations with certain products.
They have huge organized festivals supporting these things. And they segway or encourage tourism based on these as well.
Seems all we have is greed or the bottom dollar for some huge company.
At a local store I thought the .99$ lb asperagus was a deal. I stopped buying it when I saw the product of mexico label.
I think the birds spread the cherry tomatoes.
I found my *volunteers* growing in a patch of pink thistle that the birds love. The thistle did not originally grow in that spot, either. I was amazed, though, as I had never had that happen before!
We grow more each year, buy at farmers’ market, get more and more meat from locally-owned producers and simply eat less and less out of season produce. The imported stuff is fairly tasteless, so it isn’t a sacrifice.
I freeze and dry the excess.